The Ju/’Hoansi-San Village is a living museum where the people show us how they used to live.
The “/’” in their name is a click sound. They use four different ones. Here is the older man explaining something about fire making in their language.
The women and younger children were sitting in the shade resting.
Some of the younger women were out gathering firewood.
They showed us how to find water if you are far from a river. First you find a plant that looks like a tiny twig. It’s so unnoticeable in the brush that we didn’t get a picture we can identify it in. (We will not fare well if we get lost in the desert.)
Then you dig a hole where the twig was.
Then you will find this giant root.
Then you scrape the root with your knife to get some pulp off.
You need quite a bit of the pulp.
Then you squeeze it over your mouth to get a drink.
After you are done you rebury the root and it will grow again.
